Editing Encyclopedia:Username policy (section)

==={{Anchor|BLPABUSE}}Usernames with libelous, contentious, or non-public information===
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'''The following types of usernames are not permitted, and will be immediately blocked upon discovery''', because they '''violate highly important and serious Wikipedia policies''':

* Usernames that contain contentious or disparaging statements about another person (whether they be another editor, a notable [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|living or recently deceased person]], etc). 
* Usernames that are clearly libelous, contain blatantly false or disparaging statements or accusations about another person, or constitute blatant violations of Wikipedia's policy on the [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|biographies of living people]].
* Usernames that contain any non-public, private, or personally identifiable information about another person,<ref name="libelnote">The username is considered a violation of this policy, and the creation of the account considered an attempt to [[Wikipedia:Harassment#Posting of personal information|disclose non-public or personally identifiable information]] about another person, regardless of the legitimacy of the information shared and whether or not the information was correct.</ref> or contain any other information that would be deemed appropriate for suppression by an [[Wikipedia:Oversight |Oversighter]]; e.g. usernames that state what the password to the account (apparently) is.

'''These accounts, upon their discovery, should be immediately blocked by administrators'''. If such usernames are libelous or contain information that is usually suppressed (such as disclosure of non-public personal identifiable information about another editor, or blatantly libelous statements made about a [[Wikipedia:Notability|notable]] living person), the username should be [[Wikipedia:Oversight|suppressed from all logs by an Oversighter]] to protect Wikipedia and the subjects involved from any kind of negative fallout or harm as a result of the account or username creation. Requests for removing attack usernames from logs should be reported to the [[WP:Stewards|global Stewards]] team for evaluation and private removal from all WMF projects. This can be done either via [[WP:IRC|IRC]] in the {{channel|wikimedia-stewards}} channel or via email to the stewards VRT queue at {{Nospam|stewards|wikimedia.org}}.